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Quick cite
On the old Refworks, one can easily search for multiple references across folders, insert them in the pop up and paste over to inside the body of the document being worked on, and then upload the document to format both the in-text citations and create a final reference list. However, this functionality appears lost in the new Refworks - the pop-up quick cite does not display all references but only 50 at a time, and when one needs to select multiple references to insert as citations and scrolls to the next page, the references copied on the previous pages disappear.…
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Create a reference based on a URL
A user can input a doi and refworks will grab the citation data. Why isn't the possible for a URL for a website or video? The bookmarklet frequently doesn't work and this would give another way to get the data into refworks.
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Make the PDF reader open in a new tab
When reading a PDF from a reference, the reference list becomes unavailable. It would be good to be able to continue to consult the reference list while a PDF is open.
Also, when we click back from the PDF reader, we get taken back to the default/start view rather than where we were when we clicked on the PDF link, which means we need to navigate/scroll around to pick up where we left off.
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Create bibliography from folder (including subfolders)
If the option currently exists, I've been unable to find it. I have references for a project separated into folders (instead of tagging) under a root folder and would like to create a bibliography including all references within the folder and subfolders at once so they are in the correct order.
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folder lock
Have an option to lock certain folders which prohibits articles being deleted from them. Would help from accidentally losing files.
4 votes -
Añadir una campo personalizado. Add a custom field
Quisiera que el campo personalizado se vea igual que todos los demás campos, en todas las referencias: que esté a la vista cuando editas, sin tener que ir referencia por referencia, clicar “añadir más campos", buscarlo y rellenarlo. ¿Es posible hacer eso?
Add a custom field. I want the custom field to look the same as all the other fields, in all the references: to be visible when you edit, without having to go reference by reference, click "add more fields", search and fill it in. Is it possible to do that?3 votes -
RCM insert bibliography at specific location, Allow Word content following the bibliography
Some document types require content after the bibliography, e.g. institutional policies, or book chapters with appendices. RCM only drops the bibliography at the end of the Word document, which is out of order for some document types.
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Make "This is an electronic source" Bulk edit available
Records imported from some databases sometimes have a check in "This is an electronic source" even if they are from the printed version. I would like to be able to edit this check in the bulk edit.
3 votes -
Allow an option to write and read the folder a reference is stored in. This could be an RIS extension or use folder name as key word.
It would be convenient to have the folder structure in a Refworks collection of references able to be exported as an RIS file and then read the RIS file back in with the folder structure fully restored. This could be implemented as an RIS extension with a new record type storing the folder or can function within RIS by treating the folder name preceded by a specified text string indicating that the key word is actually a folder. For example, an extension would be creating a new record type such as FF for file folder and code the folder name…
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Allow quick import of public shared folder into user's own RefWorks account
If a user wants to add a public shared folder into their own account, they need to export into a RIS file and import the RIS file into their own account, which takes many steps. It would be helpful to have a quicker way to import a public shared folder. This functioned previously existed in Legacy RefWorks; there was an "add to account" button or something like that.
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Add 'starts with' option for bulk edit/replace
This would be useful for managing DOIs; DOIs may be imported with no linking prefix or with an out-dated linking prefix and may also pick up unwanted information such as a proxy component to links. Currently bulk edit allows for the removal of outdated and unwanted elements with confidence. This then leaves a basic DOI. A 'starts with' bulk edit option would make it easier to add in the correct prefix only where it is wanted.
This is preferable to using a referencing style to add in the prefix (EG APA 7th - Sentence Casing, DOI: https://doi.org/) as this…
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Request to Hide Sharing Folder Option
Is it possible to hide the option "Anyone within your organization may join this folder" when users excluding admins share their folder?
3 votes -
Reference editing - Increase the sidebar window size
My suggestion is for the referenced editing sidebar window. Can we increase the size of this side window? Why not give the user more room to see and view what they are editing? I know for myself, I'd like to have the ability to increase or decrease the width of the edit sidebar window.
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Import from text file
It would be helpful if the new RefWorks would provide the ability to insert text into an import page, as is possible in Legacy.
2 votes -
Ordering of references in folders compared to in Bibliography
Please can it be made possible to order references in a folder in the same order as a bibliography.
I wanted to view the references in a Refworks folder in the same order that they were supplied by the bibliography function.
I tried ordering them in the folder by "publication date" but this didn't seem to provide the same order.1 vote -
PLEASE develop an integration with LiquidText.
Please add a LiquidText integration for RefWorks or vice versa. LiquidText is an excellent notetaking app and it would be wonderful to be able to use them seamlessly together.
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Extension for browser
The save to RefWorks button has never worked for me or anyone at my school due to the blocks in place that can't be removed on computers for ads, cookies and other restrictions. A browser extension through the Chrome web store would help to solve this issue as it would be about acquiring permissions rather than relying on there not being any permissions to bypass. As is the nature of an application that reads the website and its data and extracts information many companies have been increasing the security of websites to prevent hacking but this inadvertently impacts programs such…
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Request to Add IP-Based Restrictions for Account Creation
I would like to request two improvements to the account creation settings in RefWorks:
- The ability to restrict account creation by IP address.
- The option to require both an approved IP address and an approved email domain for account creation.
These features would help improve security and limit access to authorized users only. I hope you will consider adding them in future updates.
Thank you.
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Citation in text with continuous notes (ISO 690) used in books
I would like to see RCM (Refworks Citation Manager) incorporate the option to use numerical citation with continuous notes, which is widely used in books. As permitted by Standard ISO 690
"The numbers inserted in the text (in parentheses, brackets or superscripts) refer to notes, numbered according to the order of appearance in the text. Notes may contain references to cited resources. If there are several citations of the same resource, they will be given separate note numbers. "
Now it isn´t possible
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RCM Issue: Citing Works with the Same Author and Year
According to APA 7 #8.18 Avoiding Ambiguity in In-Text Citations (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/same-year-first-author#:~:text=To%20avoid%20ambiguity%2C%20when%20the,al.%E2%80%9D%20in%20every%20citation ), multiple authors should still be listed in in-text citations to avoid ambiguity, when citing multiple works by three or more authors published in the same year.
However, based on our review, it seems that the current RCM does not consider this special scenario. For works with three or more authors, it only include the name of the first author followed by “et al.”, without considering the ambiguity rules. Based on our dummy paper, which includes three references with three or more authors from the same year. In…
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